Here's a list of books & films, arranged by country.
            Scroll down and choose one! or two ...
 

    Paddle to the Amazon/ Don Starkell

Borneo
    Stranger in the Forest/ Eric Hansen

China
    BOOKS
    Wild Swans/ Jung Chang
    A Mother's Ordeal/ Steven W. Mosher
    Daughter of China/ Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann
    Red Sorrow/ Nanchu
    Trouble Maker/ Harry Wu
    Life and Death in Shanghai/ Nien Chang
    Mao Zedong/ Jonathan Spence
    Blood Red Sunset/ Ma Bo
    Rape of Nanking/ Iris Chang
    Rice/ Su Tong
    Coming Home Crazy/ Bill Holm
    Iron and Silk/ Mark Salzman

    FILMS
    Raise the Red Lantern
    Ju Dou

India

    BOOKS
    May You Be the Mother of 100 Sons/ E. Bumiller
    The End Play/ Indira Mahindra
    Karma Cola/ Gita Mehta
    Bachelor of Arts/ R.K. Narayan
    Arranged Marriage/ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    FILMS
    Bandit Queen
    World of Apu

Indonesia

    BOOKS
    The Buru Quartet/ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
    (includes:
    This Earth of Mankind
    Child of all Nations
    Footsteps
    House of Glass)
    The Fugitive/ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
    Shooting the Boh/ Tracy Johnston

Mexico

    Rain of Gold/ Victor Villasenor

Mississippi River
    various books and links

New Zealand
    FILMS
    Goodbye Pork Pie

U.S.A.
    A Walk in the Woods/ Bill Bryson
    Libby/Libby Beaman
    Where the Sea Breaks its Back/ Corey Ford

Around-the-World Travel
    All the Right Places/ Brad Newsham
    Miles from Nowhere/ Barbara Savage

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